Maya Angelou Quotes

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

I have a very creative mind, and I'm always looking for new stuff and new things.

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.